Redis 3.0.0: Antirez (Salvatore Sanfillippo) brought us Redis 3.0.0 on April 1st (and I salute him for ignoring the worst day on the Internet by doing real things). The big thing with 3.0 is clustering, better smarter clustering that is, out of the box and good enough scalability and fault tolerance for many use cases. It’s a big jump, and it may take some iterations to nail it down but its worth it for the usefulness that Redis represents to a system architect.

ES5 to 6: There’s lots of transpilers which turn your ES6 JavaScript into ES5 JavaScript so it can be run anywhere, but a new project on Github, xto6 wants to turn that around and take your ES5 JavaScript code and turn it into shiny ES6 style code with all its shiny classes and accessors and more. No idea yet how this would work in the field, but it may help when you’re getting your head around ES6…. it’s the future you know.

Atomic Pairing: If you use the Atom editor (I do) and you like to pair, you may be interested in AtomPair which uses HipChat or Slack and Pusher to let developers pair (or more) inside the editor.

And Finally… Coherent: Long ago there was a Unix (cough) like OS for 286 and 386 PCs called Coherent. It worked in a wonderfully limited way (apparently using the CPU’s 64K paging tricks) and it disappeared into history. But now the Coherent source and other software from Mark Williams Company have been released under an open source license. Don’t expect to dash out and use them, but its a fine historical artifact to be able to now look inside.